I
have a sign in my office that asks the question: If you were accused
of being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to prove it?

“I
am a Christian” Barack Obama proclaims. But is there enough evidence
to prove it?

Admittedly
I don’t know Obama’s heart, however the evidence of a true
follower of Jesus Christ is a changed life. The Apostle Paul put it
this way:

“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit
of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall
God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are. Let
no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this
world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of
this world is foolishness with God” (1 Cor 3:16-23).

Did
you hear that? The Spirit of God lives in born again believers! This
is one of the most profound statements in all of Scripture. The Spirit
of the Creator of this vast universe, of all living things, indwells
those who believe in Jesus Christ! The Spirit works in believers to
change their thinking and behavior and to make them holy. Sure, it’s
a struggle, but it is possible and it is necessary and it is required!
Jesus said, “Be ye holy as I am holy.” He did not say, “Be
ye badly behaved.”

Paul
also said:

“Do
you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in
you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were
bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body” (1
Cor. 6:18-30).

What
was the price Paul spoke of? Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

How
do we know if a person’s life has changed? His worldview will
change over time (in some cases overnight) and he will exchange his
secular worldview for a sacred worldview. In other words, sooner or
later he will leave his old life behind and adopt a Christian worldview.
For those who don’t know what a Christian worldview looks
like, Paul explains it in 1
Corinthians.

That
said, a good place to start looking for proof to judge whether or not
Obama’s worldview is secular or sacred is to examine his view
on the sanctity of human life. In that regard the evidence speaks for
itself.

In
1973 the U.S. Supreme Court granted Americans a constitutional right
to destroy human life in the womb. Roe v. Wade is one of the
most divisive issues of our time. The high court’s decision gave
American women the “right to choose” to terminate a human
life.

The
pressing question is, How should Catholics and Protestants think about
the issue of abortion? Somewhere around 75% of Americans say they are
Christians. So it is reasonable to assume that a large number of “Christians”
will go to the polls in November and vote for Sen. Barack Obama. Princeton
professor Robert P. George calls Sen. Obama “the most extreme
pro-abortion candidate ever to seek the office of President of the United
States,” and “the most extreme pro-abortion member of the
United States Senate.” Moreover, Obama is “the most extreme
pro-abortion legislator ever to serve in either house of the United
States Congress.”[1]

Hyperbole?
You decide.

When
the abortion issue came up in the final debate, millions of people sat
in front of their TV sets and heard Obama shamelessly distort his record
when confronted by Sen. McCain:

“Sen.
Obama, as a member of the Illinois State Senate, voted in the Judiciary
Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention
to a child born of a failed abortion. He voted against that.”

Without
batting an eye, Obama looked into the camera and simply repeated his
claim that he voted against the bill because it would have undermined
Roe v. Wade. What many folks don’t know is that he voted
for an amendment to the bill to ease those concerns -- then he turned
around and voted against the legislation!

That
he lied is not surprising, as he has lied all along. Even his campaign
had to admit that he lied:

“The
New York Sun reported that Obama's campaign has admitted that the senator
voted against giving medical care to babies born alive after an abortion
attempt—a fact that the campaign originally dismissed as a ‘smear.’”[2]

Sen.
McCain could have gone much further to expose his opponent’s deceit,
but for reasons known only to him, he decided to let it slide. McCain
may not think so, but the American people have a right to know the truth.
And the facts speak for themselves.

While
in the Illinois legislature Sen. Obama voted against the Born-Alive
Infants Protection Act (BAIPA). The bill stated that all born-alive
babies will be legally protected persons upon birth, no matter what
gestational age -- even if they accidentally survive an abortion.

According
to LifeNews.com:

“Obama
ultimately voted in 2003 against a version of the bill identical to
a Congressional anti-infanticide bill the Senate approved on a 98-0
margin and on which the pro-abortion group NARAL took no position.”[3]

Back
in 2001 Obama described a baby born-alive after a botched abortion as
“previable.” Here is an excerpt of his statement on the
Illinois Senate floor:

"Number
one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected
by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution,
what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are
entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a—a
child, a nine-month-old—child that was delivered to term. That
determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would
forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it—it would essentially
bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody
to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion
statute."

Excuse
me? A baby outside the mother’s womb that shows signs of life
is not a fetus! Merriam-Webster.com defines “previable”
thus: “Not sufficiently developed to survive outside the uterus.”
The question all people must ask themselves is this: What if an abortion
survivor is sufficiently developed to live outside the womb? Should
an abortionist be permitted to snuff out his or her life? Obama says
yes – and without a second opinion!

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By
his own words the man who may be the next president of the United States
does not (cannot) consider an abortion survivor a person because admitting
that a baby born alive after a botched abortion is a human person would
undermine his viewpoint on Roe.

“This
issue remains on the national radar,” said Dr. Warren Throckmorton,
“because Obama has sent mixed messages about his views on born-alive
infants. During the 2004 Senate campaign and then as recently as August
16, Obama claimed he would have voted for a federal BAIPA had he been
a senator when the bill was enacted into law in 2002, where it was also
approved unanimously by the U.S. Senate. His rationale for supporting
the federal bill while opposing the state bill is that the two bills
were worded differently. However, this is not accurate, according to
Factcheck.org, an independent group affiliated with the University of
Pennsylvania, and according to a close examination of the two bills.
On August 25, 2008, FactCheck.org concluded, ‘Obama’s claim
is wrong. In fact, by the time the HHS Committee [Obama’s Senate
committee] voted on the bill, it did contain language identical to the
federal act.’”[4]

On
the 35th anniversary of Roe v. Wade Sen. Obama released a statement.
According to the Baptist Press:

“His
statement referred to the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act that was upheld
by the Supreme Court, although he avoided using the term "partial-birth"
and instead called the law the ‘Federal Abortion Ban.’”[5]

Here’s
Sen. Obama’s misleading statement:

"Thirty-five
years after the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade, it's never been more
important to protect a woman's right to choose. Last year, the Supreme
Court decided by a vote of 5-4 to uphold the Federal Abortion Ban, and
in doing so undermined an important principle of Roe v. Wade: that we
must always protect women's health. With one more vacancy on the Supreme
Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a women's fundamental
right to choose for the first time since Roe v. Wade. The next president
may be asked to nominate that Supreme Court justice. That is what is
at stake in this election.”[6]

So
much for denying that there will be a litmus test for his nominees for
Supreme Court justices. And there will be a vacancy to fill, soon, as
Justice Stevens is 88. In his own words, Obama believes in “a
women’s fundamental right to choose” to commit homicide.

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“Throughout
my career, I’ve been a consistent and strong supporter of reproductive
justice, and have consistently had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned
Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice America.”[7]

The
man bragged that he had a 100% pro-choice rating with Planned Babybutchers
…oops…Parenthood. You can bet that the Left’s
sacred abortion mill tithed a chunk of change to the Obama campaign.

Sen.
Obama even voted to allow abortions in the sixth month of pregnancy
…and later.

If
elected Barbaric Obama promised that one of the first things he’d
do is to enact the "Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA)."
After the Supreme Court upheld the federal ban on the heinous procedure
of partial-birth abortion Democrats rushed to introduce the bill
that would codify the Roe v. Wade decision into federal law.
FOCA would repeal every restriction on abortion, to include partial-birth
abortions, and would create a “fundamental right” to abortion
through all nine months of pregnancy.

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Obama
would also nullify all parental consent and notification laws.

Pro-lifers
who plan to vote for Barack Obama should understand that he supports
legislation that would repeal the Hyde Amendment:

“which
protects pro-life citizens from having to pay for abortions that are
not necessary to save the life of the mother and are not the result
of rape or incest. The abortion industry laments that this longstanding
federal law, according to the pro-abortion group NARAL, ‘forces
about half the women who would otherwise have abortions to carry unintended
pregnancies to term and bear children against their wishes instead.’
In other words, a whole lot of people who are alive today would have
been exterminated in utero were it not for the Hyde Amendment. Obama
has promised to reverse the situation so that abortions that the industry
complains are not happening (because the federal government is not subsidizing
them) would happen. That is why people who profit from abortion love
Obama even more than they do his running mate.”[8]

Christian
voters should find Barack Obama’s view deeply troubling. No serious
follower of Jesus Christ, which he claims he is, should hold such extreme
views! Well, he does and he was less than candid about during the debate.

There’s
more…

“Obama
… has co-sponsored a bill-strongly opposed by McCain-that would
authorize
the large-scale industrial production of human embryos for use in
biomedical research in which they would be killed. In fact, the bill
Obama co-sponsored would effectively require the killing of human beings
in the embryonic stage that were produced by cloning. It would make
it a federal crime for a woman to save an embryo by agreeing to have
the tiny developing human being implanted in her womb so that he or
she could be brought to term. This "clone and kill" bill would,
if enacted, bring something to America that has heretofore existed only
in China-the equivalent of legally mandated abortion. In an audacious
act of deceit, Obama and his co-sponsors misleadingly call this an anti-cloning
bill. But it is nothing of the kind. What it bans is not cloning, but
allowing the embryonic children produced by cloning to survive.”[9]

Does
this not make your blood boil? It should, if you value human life.

The
Catholic Church places a
high value on human life. But liberal Catholics, like Obama’s
running mate Sen. Joe Biden, blithely ignore the Pope Benedict’s
urging to respect life and protect the unborn from abortion and instead
choose to follow their own path. Would a true Catholic ignore their
pope?

Here’s
another question to ponder: Would a true Christian care more about protecting
the environment than they do about the murder of innocent babies?

Many
Protestants are no different from Catholics in the way they view abortion.
They’ve hardened their hearts. In order for them to achieve a
“peace about it” they must cast the Bible aside, which is
a Christian’s guide for living, and make up rules they’re
comfortable with. Liberal Christians detest hearing that God condemns
their unholy lifestyle choices, so they deal with it by ridiculing anyone
who quotes the scriptures to shore up an argument. The sad thing is,
pro-abort Christians have been taken in by the radical feminist’s
lie that “every child should be a wanted child.” Those are
the words of the Destroyer!

These
are the Words of the Creator:

"So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them." (Genesis 1:27).

"What
is man, that thou art mindful of him?And the son of man, that thou visitest
him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast
crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet"
(Psalm 8:4-6).

What
I’ve presented in this commentary are the plain facts about Barack
Obama, and as John Adams, our second president, famously said: "Facts
are stubborn things."

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“Roe
is a compact with the Culture of Death,” said Albert Mohler, “So
long as it stands, America is the land of abortion on demand. Every
pregnancy is a tentative pregnancy. Every fetus is in danger. Every
American is complicit in this tragedy.”[10]

Those
who cast their vote for Barack Obama will be complicit in this tragedy.

Marsha
West is the Founder and Editor of Email
Brigade News Report, an online news service for conservative people
of faith. Marsha is a freelance writer whose main focus is on religious
and cultural issues. She is a regular contributor to NewsWithViews.com;
TheConservativevoice; RenewAmerica; Christianworldviewnetwork; Webcommentary
and other popular websites. Her writings have also appeared on WorldnetDaily;
Canadafreepress; AmericanDaily and several Christian periodicals.

Marsha loves
to write fiction for the younger generation. She is currently writing
a series of books about an average Christian family and the cultural issues
they face. Her books equip kids to defend their faith and live for Christ.